4. The main difference between application and system software is that:
(1) Application software is composed of program instructions but system
software is not.
(2) Application software is stored in memory whereas system software is only in
the CPU.
(3) System software is unnecessary whereas application software must be present
on the computer.
(4) System software manages hardware whereas application software performs user
tasks.
(5) None of these

5.A document created in a word
processing program or a budget created in a spreadsheet are both examples
of documents created in:
(1) Application software (2) System software.
(3) An operating system (4) A Windows platform (5) None of these

6.Which of the following is an example
of system software?
(1) Word processor (2) Operating system
(3) Management information system
(4) Spreadsheet (5) None of these
7.The term that refers to computers that provide resources to other computers
in a network is:
(1) Server (2) Mainframe
(3) Platform (4) Resource provider
(5) None of these

8.If a large business is going to use a
single computer to execute many programs for hundreds (possibly thousands) of
users at the same time, performing relatively simple operations and
transactions, the type of computer will probably be a(n):
(1) Supercomputer (2) PC
(3) Mainframe (4) ISP
(5) None of these